Motif Semarangan

Thursday, July 16, 2009


General Features
This motif has a niche subject leaves with leaf carvings form a mixture of convex and concave.

Special Features

* Leaves Poster. Poster leaf shape in this pattern most bent shape. Poster leaves usually grow in advance stalled under benangan and leaf curl, as though these guidelines menahgan curls.
* Broken. in this motif form cawen.Disamping fractions fractions fractions cawen lines are also located in an attractive part of the leaf form of this motif.

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Surakarta Motive


General Features
Leaf carvings form of Surakarta motif taken from the recesses of radiating frond free rhythm. Leaves convex and concave (mixture).

Special Features

* Forms of Carving. Surakarta style motifs as though describing his character and personality of the creator, in addition to the existing neighborhood influences. This can be seen in the beauty and harmony of Surakarta ordinances that leaf carvings on this motif also keliahatan beautiful harmony.

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Yogyakarta Motive


General Features
Motive Yogyakarta carvings known as Yogya silver, this form takes an example from the frond.

Special Features


* Leaves Basic. Berelung main leaf carving graceful niche with convex and concave leaves that grow in these niches. At the end of this niche which often grow flowers bloom beautifully.

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Motif Madura


General Features
In outline form madura leaf carvings are curved and there is at the end of the leaf curl. Cawen fractions in the leaves of the saw-like points.

Special Features

* Benangan. In poko leaf carvings have emerged that benangan towards the end of the leaf curl it.
* Broken. Broken lines similar to the motive of Jepara.

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Pekalongan Motive


General Features
The shape of this pekalongan motif carved convex and concave (mixture).

Special Features

* Sunggar. Having piled sunggar the same convex shape with tweezers.
* Benangan. This motif resembles Benangan existing benangan on Pajajaran motive. Only occasionally is benangan motiff shaped leaves.
* Broken. Fractions present in line while the broken main leaf cawen found on the concave leaves.

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Cirebon Motif


General Features
The shape is carved leaf motif convex and concave (mixture). This style of carving patterns in the form of rock there is also a form of clouds, like carving China. This style of carving is less well known, because the carving is mostly only used to decorate the house alone.

Special Features

* Tweezers. Motive has tweezers at the end of the curly leaf around PATRAN, who grew up in advance the main leaf.

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Jepara Motif


General Features
The shape of the leaf carving on this motif and sloping triangular shape.

Special Features

* Leaves Basic. Main leaf motif has its own style, which is hollow, and circular recesses. In the recesses of the final leaves clustered there.
* Flowers and Fruit. Flowers and fruits in Jepara convex pattern (dots) like grapes or fruit wuni arranged rows or clusters. This flower is often found on the corner of the meetings niche of the leaves are on the subject or niche that surrounded the end of their leaves, and flowers follow the form of leaves.
* Broken. In leaf motifs carved pieces have 3 broken lines follow the direction of the leaf, so that looks like a light.

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Mataram Motif


General Features
All good leaf carvings form the subject leaves maupu small leaves - a small concave-shaped (Krawingan). The shape is carved leaf shaped motif PATRAN. At the end there is a leaf curl and some are not loopy. Composition of leaf motifs are usually clustered to resemble the natural leaf.

Special Features


* Leaves Poster. Poster leaf shape in this pattern most bent shape. Poster leaves usually grow in advance stalled under benangan and leaf curl, as though holding the curls Duan.
* Benangan. There are two kinds of motives: (1). Benangan Incurred (2). Benangan Line.
* Broken. in this motif form cawen.Disamping fractions fractions fractions cawen lines are also located in an attractive part of the leaf form of this motif.

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Bali Motif


General Features
All forms of carved leaves, flowers and fruit convex and concave (mixture).

Special Features


* Tweezers. As with any other motive motive has tweezers that curls at the ends.
* Sunggar. Sunggar is only found in this motif alone is sunggar which grows from the tip of the leaf curl benangan principal.
* Endong. Leaves that grow behind the main leaf as found in endong Pajajaran motifs and Majapahit.
* SIMBAR. Balinese also has SIMBAR SIMBAR as contained in the Majapahit moif dn Pajajaran also typical.
* Leaves Poster. Poster leaves that grow in this motif grows on top of that form beautifully.
* Benangan. Special on his motive was benangan convex and sloping part, which is growing circle benangan until the end curls.
* Broken. As with any other motive, the motive majapahit fractions has broken the line that extends to the leaf base and cawen fractions contained in the leaf carvings PATRAN, thus adding to the beauty of carvings.

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Majapahit Motif


General Features
All forms of carved leaves, flowers and fruit convex and concave (Mixed).
Special Features
Tweezers. Majapahit motif has curly tweezers and a concave on the top while at the end of the tweezers are curly as the end of the tweezers.
* Crest Flats. Crest sususn is characteristic motifs present in majapahit. Crest apartment is located in advance of the main leaf.
* Leaves Poster. Leaves Poster in this motif grows mostly on the leaves above the point ..
* SIMBAR. SIMBAR shaped like that there [there is another motive. also serves as penamba beauty alone.
* Benangan. This pattern sometimes - sometimes has a double benangan besides benangan line.
* Broken. like any other motive, the motive majapahit fractions in fractions mempunayi radiating lines on the leaves and broken main cawen contained in the leaves ukiaran PATRAN, thus adding kecntikan carving.

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Pajajaran Motif

Wednesday, July 15, 2009


General Features
All forms of leaf carvings from the main leaf, Dunn Poster, leaves, fruits and flowers PATRAN etc. convex (rounded)

Special Features

* Tweezers. Pajajaran motives have some tweezers that (1). Large tweezers main leaf (2). Tweezers While the leaves are (3). Small tweezers trubusan leaves.
* Cula. This horn-shaped curved pattern facing forward.
* Endong. Forms that grow side by side carving / g dibelakn with curly leaf subject contained in the final endong leaf carving it.
* SIMBAR. SIMBAR has carved leaves as a sweetener in the form of a typical subject as well.
* Benangan. Benangan in poko leaf-shaped carved like a stalk that arises is the main leaf carvings in advance, whereas there are at benangan line engraving young leaves.
* Broken. Broken line serves as a sweetener, the leaves spread on the subject, leaves and leaf fragments in PATRAN cawen and fractions in the other leaf carvings.

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Background Xelograph Art Of Java




Trdisional carving motifs in Java very wide range of shades so that for each one motive Knowing very difficult if we do not know the basic pattern.

For that first need to know is the color hue of the region which is the name, shape and characteristics of these carved motifs. In general motifs carved motifs in Java and Bali stilasi always using the technique of plants, animals and sometimes humans

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